Quilombola school education from a field perspective: The Quilombola Peasant

Abstract

This article is a product of an ongoing research entitled: “The educational public policies of the Articulated Action Plan-par in municipalities of Bahia”. It focuses on Vitória da Conquista, Ilhéus and Itabuna. We describe the results of this study concerning the reality of the quilombola1 school education from a field2 perspective, that of the quilombola peasant. We followed the dialectical historical materialism method. The results point to contradictions between what the law provides in the specific legislations and the materiality of this population’s particularities. We conclude that the specific mode of production of the quilombola countryside people legitimizes a social practice of coping with capital through the peasantry. To better explain it, we have used the emerging category Quilombola peasant.